Chapter 41

Heat rushed to Jane’s face and she opened her mouth to stop him from taking things any further.

“What are you both talking about?”

“Nothing”, Bruce shook his head, “I asked the Young Mistress what she wanted to eat today, I was just about to head off”.

Jane reinforced his words with a nod, “What do you want to eat, dear?”

“It didn’t matter”, Ethan said coldly.

How did she expect him to have an appetite, with the fury boiling inside him? His little wife was really something — dating Brock Davenport behind his back, and now exchanging whispers with his side in secret.

“I’ll make you a few different dishes then”, she said appeasingly.

“I’ll give you a list of groceries, Bruce”. The side obliged.

Ethan stifled an icy laugh. Making alliances now, are we? He wheeled himself into the house without saying a word.

Only after he had gone did Bruce relax.

“If you don’t… persuade him like I told you, Young Mistress, it won’t bode well for either of us in the future”.

He had served Ethan for many y